{"id":4787,"date":"2014-09-15T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/legislation-introduced-to-remove-social-security-number-from-medicare-cards\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:53:30","slug":"legislation-introduced-to-remove-social-security-number-from-medicare-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/legislation-introduced-to-remove-social-security-number-from-medicare-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Introduced to Remove Social Security Number from Medicare Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/legislation\/legis_bulletin_121810.html\">Social Security Number Protection Act<\/a>, which was signed by President Barack Obama in December 2010, Prohibits federal, state, or local agencies from: (1) displaying the Social Security account number of any individual, or any derivative of such number, on any check issued for any payment by the agency; or (2) employing, or entering into a contract for the use or employment of, prisoners in any capacity that would allow them access to the Social Security account numbers of other individuals.<\/p>\n<p>However, legislation was introduced in July seeking to prohibit display of Social Security numbers on Medicare cards.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 33 states bar the use of Social Security numbers on health insurance cards.<\/p>\n<p>Social Security numbers are valuable to identity thieves because they help them side step one part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">id verification<\/a> process. When combined with birth dates for <a title=\"ageverification,\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\">age verification,<\/a> Medicare cards prove to be a powerful resource for fraudulent activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Number Protection Act, which was signed by President Barack Obama in December 2010, Prohibits federal, state, or local agencies from: (1)<br \/>\ndisplaying the Social Security account number of any individual, or any derivative of such number, on any check issued for any payment by the agency;<br \/>\nor (2) employing, or entering into a contract for the use or employment of, prisoners in any capacity that would allow them access to the Social Security account numbers of other individuals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}